FL too hatable for the movie to be enjoyable
The movie itself wasn't bad, the acting was good and, if you ignore a lot about the FL, the relationship between ML and FL is very fun and cute, sadly the FL is just not a good person. I'm all for character development, and by the end she did become a better person, but it's very hard to root for her and the relationship when for more than half the movie she's just an awful human being. This is not even a case of skewed morals, gray characters or a character doing bad things with a good reason. She's just a bad person.
You can get away with an MD being a complete asshole and rude to the patients when their abilities are phenomenal and still do their best to save said patient (eg: House MD). But you can't have a Doctor who is an asshole but who also doesn't care about their patients at all and is a bad doctor.
The first time we see the FL,
- she is rude to other doctors,
- takes a case that isn't hers because she wants to look good in front of a superior
- takes the patient's situation too lightly and doesn't bother to actually try to figure what is wrong with her, thus misdignosing her,
- ignores the husband's concerns,
- makes stereotypical assumptions on the patient and her husband, which she also uses as an excuse to not look further into the patient's condition,
- thinks the patient is being abused by her husband and still sends her home with him.
When it comes to light that she messed up, she doesn't admit her mistake and apologies, she doesn't feel bad at all and only cares about her license.
How am I supposed to root and care for such a vile character? I only wanted her to be sued for negligence and lose her license.
This already makes her look completely devoid of empathy but they also make sure to actually show us that that actually IS the case. Not only is she completely careless and has absolutely no tact when asking the ML if his wife died, she also pretends her mother died so she can connect with him and convince him to move on from her death.
Again, the story itself wasn't bad, but the FL was just impossible to love which lessened the watching experience.
You can get away with an MD being a complete asshole and rude to the patients when their abilities are phenomenal and still do their best to save said patient (eg: House MD). But you can't have a Doctor who is an asshole but who also doesn't care about their patients at all and is a bad doctor.
The first time we see the FL,
- she is rude to other doctors,
- takes a case that isn't hers because she wants to look good in front of a superior
- takes the patient's situation too lightly and doesn't bother to actually try to figure what is wrong with her, thus misdignosing her,
- ignores the husband's concerns,
- makes stereotypical assumptions on the patient and her husband, which she also uses as an excuse to not look further into the patient's condition,
- thinks the patient is being abused by her husband and still sends her home with him.
When it comes to light that she messed up, she doesn't admit her mistake and apologies, she doesn't feel bad at all and only cares about her license.
How am I supposed to root and care for such a vile character? I only wanted her to be sued for negligence and lose her license.
This already makes her look completely devoid of empathy but they also make sure to actually show us that that actually IS the case. Not only is she completely careless and has absolutely no tact when asking the ML if his wife died, she also pretends her mother died so she can connect with him and convince him to move on from her death.
Again, the story itself wasn't bad, but the FL was just impossible to love which lessened the watching experience.
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